Lost Boys Recovered From Coal Mine
Vill Think Twice Before Next Jaunt
PITTSBURGH 'UPlt-For the
rest of the summer Danny O'Kain.
Billy Burke and Bobby Abbott
will ride their bikes, go swimming
or play baseball.
"No more mines for us," said
14-year-old Bobby. "We had
enough of that for the rest of our
lives."
Burke, 13. looked up from the
comic pages to nod agreement.
"We sure did," he said.
The boys share a room in St.
Clair Memorial Hospital. They
communicate frequently by tele
phone with O'Kain, 13, who is in
another room. The boys are re
covering from their ordeal of be
ing lost for two days in an aban
doned coal mine in nearby Castle
Shannon.
The youngsters appear more in
terested in making plans for the
summer than they do in discuss-
High Schools
Prefer Bands
To Orchestras
INTER. LOCHEN, Mich. IUPI)
Most of the nation's high
(schools are without orchestras be
cause publicity-minded education
officials prefer well-drilled bands
playing at football games, accord
ing to Dr. Joseph E. Maddy.
The founder and head of the
National Music Camp at Intcr
lochen and of the new Interlochen
Arts Academy, made it clear he
is not opposed to school bands.
He has organized quite a few of
them himself. But he does feel
the kind of music training given
in high school orchestras also is
needed if fulure demands for
skilled musicians are to be met.
Maddy gave an interview
marking publication of his bio
graphy, "Joe Maddy of Inter
lochen," written by Norma Lee
Browning, a Chicago Tribune re
porter who is turning all her
royalties from the book over to
Maddy to help finance formation
of an International Youth Sym
phony. The biography, marking
Maddy's 35th anniversary at In
terlochen, reviews his sometimes
turbulent career as the "pied pi
per of American music," but
right now Maddy would rather
talk about the future.
It is his conviction that auto
mation eventually will set off a
cultural explosion in this country,
with more people than ever be
fore becoming artists, musicians,
writers and dancers. The arts,
in turn, will serve as a major
means of helping to solve the un
employment problems created by
automation, in his opinion.
After 50 years of .dumping the
nation in behalf of music educa
tion, Maddy still is searching as
hard as ever for new talent. He
has been encountering a few
problems lately, however. For
one thing, he says, not enough
young people are learning to
play the violin, and the string
bass as the least popular mstru-
ment of all. The flute seems to
be too popular. Maddy turns
away more flute players than
any other musicians who apply
for admission to his camp and
preparatory school.
There is a shortage of budding
Beethovens and Bachs he finds.
Most of the young people who
try to write music are falling
short of the mark, in his opinion,
because too many of them try j
to start -with symphonies, which j
are the most difficult pieces of
music to compose, instead of be
ginning with something simple
and advancing by degrees.
However, the development of
new talent through the group
training offered by high school
orchestras would be the most
useful step forward, as far as
Maddy is concerned.
ing their miraculous rescue.
Mrs. Abbott told her son:
"There must have been a gold
en angel on each of your shoul
ders to save you from that mine."
Bobby and Danny may be re
leased from the hospital today.
nut Billy will be detained until
an X-ray study is made of his
chest. He complained of pains aft
er stumbling in the gas-filled
mine.
The boys had been in the No. 2
mine of the old Castle Shannon
Coal Co. twice before and thought
they were familiar with the laby-
nntns.
"We had a map of the main
tunnel," Bobby said. "We felt sure
Art Seen At
Vin Chateaux
BORDEAUX, France (UPD
The spacious rooms of one of
France's great wine chateaux
have become galleries for a popu
lar exhibit of contemporary art.
For the third year, fine artists
are displaying their works at
Chateau Lascombes, 15 miles
north of here in the sleepy wine
country village of Margaux.
The summer exhibit has drawn
favorable notices from Paris
critics and the crowds who wind
their way through the vineyards
and gardens of Lascombes attest
to its popular appeal.
The exhibit, with the theme "La
Vigne et le Vin" (the wine and
the vinei, has attracted works of
contemporary artists from France,
Italy, the United States, Britain,
Japan, Greece, Australia, Israel,
Spain, Argentina, Belgium, Lith
uania Holland and Germany.
Visitors who come to Lascombes
to view and possibly buv the art
works are invited to the famed
chateau's wine cellars to sample
its ruDy vintages.
The exhibit will remain open to
the public until October, accord
ing to Alexis Lichine who organi
zed it. Licnine, an American; is a
leading exporter of French wines
in addition to heading the society
which now controls famed Chateau
Lascombes and its great vine
yards.
The current year is the third
for the art show which appears
to be becoming an annual classic.
The intital exhibit in 1961 featured
only French artists. Last year,
contempory Italian painters
showed their works. This year the
exhibit has become truly Interna
tional and its scope has been
broadened to include, in addition
to paintings, sculpture, ceramics.
mosasics and tapestries.
we Knew our way around.
J. A. Blackman, deputy state
secretary of mines, said the open
entrance to the mine will be
walled up with cement and filled
in by a bulldozer.
A team of mine rescue experts.
refreshed after a daylong rest
following an ordeal which began
Thursday night and ended at 5
p.m., Saturday, were still baffled
by the discovery.
Thomas J. McDonald, supervis
or of the Pittsburgh office of the
Bureau of Mines and his aides,
Samuel Cortis, Everett Turner,
Jim Hutchens and Jennings Bree-
don showed the pffecis of their
grueling tasks. All were at the
point of exhaustion when the boys
were found.
Despite their weariness, the
rescuers planned to continue their
search because of the belief of
the parents that the boys were in
the mine.
The rescuers feared the worst.
The mine, which has been shut
down since 1938, was known to
be filled with "black damp," a
deadly combination of methane
gas and carbon dioxide. And there
were other hazards. The tunnels
are honeycombed with rockfalls
and pools of stagnant water.
At first, rescuers doubted the
boys had gone into the mine. But
Mrs. Florence Burke, widowed
mother of Billy, insisted they had
gone underground. The boys' bi
cycles were found outside the
mine entrance.
David Butler, 10, deepened her
fears when he told Castle Shan
non firemen Abbott had shown
him a drawing of the mine. The
diagram, remarkably accurate,
was scribbled on the back of a
bank deposit slip.
Police found the crumpled dia
gram in the Abbott home and
searched the area described in the
map but to no avail.
Later, the explanation was
learned.
"We took a wrong turn and got
lost, O'Kain said.
The boys wandered around un
derground, lighting their way with
generator - powered lights taken
from the bicycles. But when
Burke injured his ribs, they de
cided to stay in a small room.
It was lucky they did. Here
they were picked out by the light
flashed by Turner, Hutchens and
Breedon.
"Why they're alive. I don't
know," said Cortis. "But let's
give credit to God."
NEW CORRECTIONAL CENTER This aerial view shows the nine million dollar Con
servation Center that opened in Susanville, Calif., Saturday. The center, a pioneering
concept in correctional programs, will hold 1 ,200 minimum and medium security state
prisoners and is designed to save men by putting them to work saving the state's nat.
ural beauties. The center, first of four throughout California, will teach men how to
fight fires, replant burned-over forests, combat forest insects, clear streams and per
form other conservation tasks.
School Kids Battle To Save Timbuctoo
TLMBUCTOO, Calif. (UPI In
weed-choked remnant of what
once was a roaring Lainornia
gold town, school children and
their teacher are battling nature
and time in an effort to save a
chunk of history.
All that remains of Timbuctoo
once a bustling mining village
of 1,200 population located be
tween Grass Valley and Marys-
villc in California's Sacramento
Valley is a Wells Fargo agency.
This is the building that John
Maver and his fifth grade stu
dents at Lone Tree School are
trying to save.
The students are children of
personnel at Beale Air Force:
Base.
Sad Shape
Their building is in sad shape.
Weather and souvenir hunters
have chipped away, leaving holes
in the walls. Tourists scratched
their names on the ravaged brick.
And a sea of weeds and bushes
threatened to engulf the structure.
Last January, Mayer's class
voted to do something to stop the
death-by-inches of the town's lone
survivor.
They were told: "Go to t h e
government, go to the bank, go
to some agency for help.
"But we felt it should be pos
sible for individuals to group to
gether and accomplish something
on their own." Mayer said.
They began to search for aid
by letter. Fifth graders took turns
writing superintendents in schools
throughout the state asking them
to ask other students to help with
money-making projects.
Ask For Brick
They wrote surrounding coun
ties to ask for a brick or stone
from a historic building to trans
plant to the crumbling agency.
They baked and sold 1.800 cup
cakes nearly $'.K) worth. They!
begged for and wcrj promised
HERALD AM) NEWS. Klamath Falls. Oregon
Monday, July 15, 1963
PAGE 1
Next Few Weeks Will Provide
Clues To Future Race Strife
two windows from a recently
razed courthouse.
Every Saturday the 10-year-olds
themselves turned out to hack at'
enveloping scrub and berry bush
es, round up bricks fallen beneath
the building, mix mortar and help
put stones in place.
Mayer said response to their ef
forts has been enthusiastic, but
actual contributions and pledges
of volunteer help disappointing
By t'nilcd Press International
The next few weeks probablvi
will provide important clues to
the route the desegregation move-l
ment will follow in the immedi-1
ate future.
Two factors are critical:
Can Negro leaders be per
suaded to declare a moratorium
on street demonstrations during
the weeks it will take to consider
a strong new civil rights bill now
before Congress"
Can Negro groups settle their
differences and join forces in one
unified drive (or the "civil
rights" they are demanding?
president Kennedy has pro
posed a bill that would for the
first time guarantee access hv
Negroes to privately owned fncil
ities such as hotels and restau
rants which generally are used
by the public traveling across!
state lines. The Senate Commerce
Committee has started or
phase of the bill.
Negro leaders arc under the
strongest pressure from both the
President and Ally. Gen. Robert
Kennedy to call off racial dem
onstrations while the measure is
under consideration.
So far, the attitude of majori
groups running the nationwide
desegregation campaign has been
completely negative to any pro-
pnsal, even from the White
House, for a moratorium on "di
rect action" demonstrations.
In keeping with their "no
truce" policy Negro groups are
moving ahead with plans for a
massive demonstration in the na
tion's capital Aug. 28, timed when
they expect the bill to hit the
Senate floor. They say the dem
onstration would point up the ur-l
geniy of passing the bill and
would be a deterrent to an ex
pected Southern filibuster.
Kennedy administration off i-
ials, sympathetic with the Negro
cause, have warned that a major
demonstration could have just thp
opposite effect. Administration
Democrats know they will need
strong bipartisan support to shut
off debate on the bill. They don't
think they could attract much
Republican interest and mighti
lose some from the Democratic
side if demonstrations outside
are being used to pressure con
gressmen inside.
Negroes speak of promoting a
crowd of 100.000 demonstrators.
Granted the figure is optimistic,
a crowd even half that size would
present a monumental problem
at best and a possible riot at
worst.
Who among the Negro leader
ship would be responsible for the
conduct of such a crowd?
Many groups, principally the
NAACP, have found it necessary
to campaign for Negro support.
Rep. Charles C. Diggs, D-Mich.,
Negro congressman, proposed
a "summit meeting" of Negro or
ganizations "where we start con
centrating on objectives and for
get the differences which may ex
ist among our leadership with re
spect to the pace and approach."
Hawaii has 114.8 males to each
100 females.
Weeds cause $1,000 in losses
annually on the average farm
in the United States.
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State Crashes
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By United Press International
Five Oregon residents lost their
lives in separate traffic accidents
during the weekend.
One of the accidents occurred
in Washington state.
Gerald Jensen, 3, Florence, was
killed when he was struck by a
car on State Highway 36 near his
home Sunday night.
Mrs. Joanna Bowcutt. 40. Glad
stone, was killed w hen her station
wagon collided head-on w ith a car
three and one-half miles northeast
of Shelton, Wash., early Sunday.
Benjamin Maxwell. 45. Dayton,
died at a Portland hospital Sun
day from injuries suffered Satur
day when the pickup truck in
which he was riding crashed into
a light post in Portland.
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